Ladies
and Gentlemen, skinny and stout,
I'll
tell you a tale I know nothing about;
The
Admission is free, so pay at the door,
Now
pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
One
fine day in the middle of the night,
Two
dead boys got up to fight;
Back
to back they faced each other,
Drew
their swords and shot each other.
A
blind man came to watch fair play,
A mute
man came to shout "Horray!"
A deaf
policeman heard the noise and
Came
and killed those two dead boys.
He
lived on the corner in the middle of the block,
In a
two-story house on a vacant lot;
A man
with no legs came walking by,
and
kicked the lawman in his thigh.
He
crashed through a wall without making a sound,
into a
dry creek and suddenly drowned;
The
long black hearse came to cart him away,
But he
ran for his life and is still gone today.
I
watched from the corner of the big round table,
The
only eyewitness to facts of my fable;
But if
you doubt my lies are true,
Just
ask the blind man, he saw it
too.